Shemini – A Rabbi’s Blessing Doesn’t Make It Kosher — By Ben
My favorite guilty pleasure is chicken wings. I kinda sorta try to eat healthy (depending on your definition of the word.) But basically a low carb high protein diet has […]
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Pesach: Dayenu – Would It Really Have Been Enough? — By Ben
As Pesach approaches we find ourselves in a furious rush. Between cooking, cleaning, switching out dish ware, finishing work before the two days of Yom Tov, and collecting all chometz […]
Pesach – It’s Not Darkest Before Just the Dawn — By Ben
We have a lot of maxims in our culture that simply aren’t true. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over, expecting different result. No volume of the […]
Good Mourning — By Ben
In every Shemona Esrei there’s a section for refuah shlema, healing. Within that prayer, there is a place to insert the names of specific people who are sick and so […]
Vayakhel – The Jewish Meyers Briggs Test
As we make our way through the Mishkan parshas, the Torah may not seem as engaging as earlier chapters. But if you look closely, say at the… terumah offering or […]
Ki Sisa – 13 Attributes Of Mercy
If you’re reading this on the day it was published, you are in the midst of one of the many fast days in the Jewish calendar. This one being the […]
Shabbos Zachor – Remember to Forget — By Ben
This Shabbat is a special one. Known simply as Shabbos Zachor, it’s a uniquely chosen week where we connect to the holiness and compassion of our infinite Creator by remembering […]
Terumah – Torah is Out Of Order
Parshas Terumah begins the first of four Torah portions that discuss the portable sanctuary known as the Mishkan (or Tabernacle.) These are very intricate parshas that detail everything from how […]
Mishpatim – How Could a Nation of Slaves Own Slaves? — By Ben
The abolition of slavery is one of the benchmarks of mankind’s progression towards enlightenment and humanity. So to look at the Torah, which not only allows for slavery but instructs you how to […]
Lady Bird and My Struggles with Identity — By Ben
Note: Spoilers ahead. “Do I look like I’m from Sacramento?” Lady Bird asks her mother in the opening line of the film. “You are from Sacramento,” she replies. Right from the […]
Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 